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Icculus Grows Fond Of Open-Source GPU Drivers

04-02-2012, 08:30 AM

Phoronix: Icculus Grows Fond Of Open-Source GPU Drivers

Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, the famed Linux game developer, in the past has sharply criticized open-source Linux graphics drivers as not being mature and putting the Linux desktop into a dangerous position. In speaking to Ryan this weekend, his views on the open-source graphics drivers have changed...

Seems like the FOSS video driver situation is at an exciting tipping point. "Good enough" to run Humble Bundle means more people running the stock FOSS driver and more motivation to contribute to it. Add to that a source engine game hopefully coming to Linux will translate to even more incentive to get the FOSS video drivers in great shape. Things are looking good.

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I'm amazed at how far the FOSS drivers have come as well. Just a few months ago I was happy to get around 24 fps in Oil Rush. I just played it today, and it's getting a solid 30fps (Radeon HD5770, 1920x1080, low settings).

I have about 55 indie games on Desura, and i'd say 90% of them run beautifully. It's true that most of them are not so graphically demanding, but it's still damn impressive compared to just last year. The fact that I don't have to install a buggy crashy graphics blob is icing on the cake.

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If you reread the article carefully, you will notice Gordon never mentioned AMD. I wonder myself why (no irony).

I don't think he has anything against AMD. It's well known that he usually runs NVidia stuff with the proprietary driver, simply because his work demands him to have a stable full featured driver. I would guess that he just doesn't own any modern AMD hardware.

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I don't think he has anything against AMD. It's well known that he usually runs NVidia stuff with the proprietary driver, simply because his work demands him to have a stable full featured driver. I would guess that he just doesn't own any modern AMD hardware.

I´m sure there is much more behind. But the only positive thing I´d like to type is that I suggest AMD keeps up what it has promised with GCN and linux opensource. Especially because of GCN. But no hopes.